Question about bce driver

[David Christensen]

> Dave, perhaps you could answer my question?
> 
> I'm using the 0.9.6 driver with 6.1 RELEASE.  I don't use 
> jumbo frames, so 
> the only problem I've experienced is the link state going up and down 
> occasionally.
> 
> Does the more current driver solve the link state problem?  
> If it does, can 
> I use it on 6.1 merely by replacing the three files included 
> with it?  Or 
> are there includes that refer to other libraries that have 
> changed since 
> 6.1?
> 
> Am I better off upgrading the entire system to 6.2?  (I 
> prefer not to do 
> this, because I have to take the site down to do so.  
> Patching files and 
> rebuilding world and kernel only takes the box out of service 
> during the 
> reboots.

I've never seen the link up/down problem myself, so I don't know
if any changes I've made have an effect on it.  You would need to
change more than the bce driver since it depends upon the brgphy
driver under sys/dev/mii which would also need to change.  There
may be other dependencies upon changes in the 6.2 kernel which
would prevent a quick/easy port without some debugging.  

Dave